Paint Touches

Statline: 26 pts, 8 reb, 7-7 FG, 12-13 FT, 33 min Quality of opponent: 8/10. Two thoughts here. 1)Syracuse came into the Bradley Center for the final time in a bit of a slump that would turn into a downright freefall, losing five of eight games and causing coach Jim Boeheim to blow up at the […]

What a ride it was for Marquette in 2012-13. Twenty-six wins, a shared Big East regular season title, an Elite 8 appearance and two All-Big East players. We know about Vander Blue’s 30-point effort, Davante Gardner’s impressive performance against Syracuse, Junior Cadougan’s dominance against Wisconsin and the Golden Eagles’ defensive numbers in a Sweet 16 […]

What he did well: Had there been a comeback player of the year award in the Big East, the fifth-year senior Otule would have been the unanimous winner. What began as a painful sight to watch early in the year, Otule regained his form after missing most of the summer recovering from a torn ACL […]

What he did well: Davante Gardner’s Twitter handle isn’t @iGetBuckets_54 for no reason. The big man from Virginia can keep up offensively with just about any center in the country, averaging 11.5 points per game this past season, the second highest mark on the team. Whenever Marquette was stalling offensively, the go-to play was, get […]

Marquette is now 40 minutes from its third straight Sweet 16 appearance, and standing in its way is the sixth-seeded Butler Bulldogs, who knocked off Bucknell on Thursday in the NCAA Tournament’s second round. It’s a rematch of the Maui Invitational’s opening round, when Butler shooting guard Rotnei Clarke hit arguably the shot of the […]